Windows NT multi-threaded design in a multi-link translator and display system

Author

Ho, H.T.

Author_Institution

Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA, USA

Volume

1/17 pp. vol.1

fYear

1999

fDate

36465

Abstract

The future vision of communication systems suggests a global grid will be used to enable links among any battlefield participant to any other participant. In the meantime, there are many diverse data links that have grown over many years, consumed substantial investment of effort and funding, and are not amenable to wholesale modernization. Consequently, there is a need for a set of tools to allow interconnected communications among the existing data links. The multi-link translator and display system (MTDS) offers this set of tools. The MTDS provides three basic capabilities: to receive and display tactical data link information, to translate between tactical data link message sets, and to route the data link information between various physical interfaces. MTDS translates between Tactical Digital Information Link (TADIL) A, TADIL B and TADIL J. This paper first describes the MTDS and then presents its Windows NT multi-threaded design

Keywords

data communication; military communication; multi-threading; real-time systems; telecommunication computing; TADIL A; TADIL B; TADIL J; Windows NT; communication systems; global grid; interconnected communications; multi-link translator; multi-threaded design; physical interfaces; tactical data link information; Application software; Computer displays; Computer graphics; Hardware; Investments; Local area networks; Machine vision; Personal communication networks; Prototypes; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 1999. Proceedings. 18th

Conference_Location

St Louis, MO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5749-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.1999.863704

Filename

863704